Sugar is a story of a Dominican pitcher form Dominican Republic struggling every moment to do big in life and pull himself and his family out of dreaded poverty.
Miguel Santos is a professional player at the Kansas City Knights baseball academy. He finally gets a major break when he is just 19 years old. Santos goes to the U.S. and stays with other Spanish-speaking teammates in a small town in Iowa corn country.
His persistent tussle with the English language and American culture puts him in a self-imposed solitude, which he had never experienced before. What follows is a spate of inner conflicts, which he is a part of by observing the World and people.
